Teacher information
Unit 20
Unit focus This unit focuses on the grapheme ea to represent a sound (phoneme).
Teaching points • Identify the phoneme and how it is represented. Discuss how it makes a short e sound. • Sort the list words according to the graphemes and brainstorm other words to add to each list.
List words Word building
r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S
Teac he r
heads, headache leaden, leadenly breads, breadknife, breadcrumb, breadboard spreads, spreading
breakfasts, breakfasted, breakfasting n heavier, n heaviest, n heavily, n heaviness deafen, deafened, deafening, deafeningly, deafness n deadlier, n deadliest, n deadliness n steadies, n steadied, s steadying, n steadier, n steadiest, n steadily, n steadiness threads, threaded, threading
Revision words Word building
© R. I . C.Publ i cat i ons •f orr evi ew pur posesonl y• backward, backyard, backstroke, backbone, background lucky, n luckily, n luckier, n luckiest comics, comical picnics, l picnicked, l picnicking tricks, tricked, tricking, tricky, n trickier, n trickiest shocks, shocked, shocking panics, l panicked, l panicking, l panicky traffics, l trafficked, l trafficking
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(Taken from Unit 20, Book C.)
Rules
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back luck comic picnic trick shock panic traffic
ew i ev Pr
head lead bread spread instead ahead breakfast heavy deaf deadly steady thread
o c . che e r o t r s super
Rule: The y at the end of base words changes to i when a suffix is added. Rule: The y is retained when adding ing to avoid ii being written (two exceptions are taxiing and skiing). l Rule: Words that end with ic add k before adding the suffixes ed, ing or y. n
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Dictation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Do you spread butter and jam on your bread at breakfast? The traffic was so heavy on the way to the picnic that we had to turn back and go somewhere else instead. We got a shock and began to panic when we saw the deadly snake ahead of us in the long grass. The trick to writing a good comic book is to tell funny jokes. His legs felt like lead and he tried to keep steady as he threaded his way up the winding trail. They are hoping, that with a bit of luck, the blow to her head will not make her deaf.
New wave spelling – Teacher resource book – D
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